yazi VS ratatui

Compare yazi vs ratatui and see what are their differences.

yazi

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. (by sxyazi)

ratatui

Rust library that's all about cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨‍🍳🐀 (by ratatui-org)
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yazi ratatui
10 45
8,151 7,921
- 8.3%
9.7 9.7
4 days ago about 18 hours ago
Rust Rust
MIT License MIT License
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yazi

Posts with mentions or reviews of yazi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-21.
  • Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2024
  • Ratatui
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2023
    I think a lot of Ratatui apps will tend to land on similar concepts for your app. There's a few good examples of apps using a component approach rather than just widgets that I'm aware of:

    - https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi

    - https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/gobang

    - https://github.com/nomadiz/edma

    Perhaps the intuitive crate would make a good abstraction on top of Ratatui?

  • Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 17 Sep 2023
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2023
    Thank you for your appreciation!

    In fact, `G` and `gg` are already supported in Yazi. You just need to set `arrow -999` for `gg`, and `arrow 999` for `G`. I've added it to the default keybindings: https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/commit/c540542da49004a3084b1d...

    The enhanced find/filter feature has been noted in the Feature Requests (https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/issues/51), and I will make an effort to implement it soon. Of course, PRs welcome if possible :)

ratatui

Posts with mentions or reviews of ratatui. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-06.
  • Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
    50 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2024
    As a sound and music computing person, I rarely used tui before although I use cli tools often, e.g. SoX. I usually use Audacity to record on Mac. But then I realized I wanted a tool that could quickly open and record inspiration, and that's when TUI came into play: I decided to write my own custom tool called asak (audio Swiss Army Knife) [1]

    This way I can quickly record on Mac, and of course, since this is Rust and ratatui [2], this tool should also be cross-platform.

    [1] https://github.com/chaosprint/asak

    [2] https://ratatui.rs/

  • Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in 100% safe Rust
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2024
    > If someone plopped me in front of a rust codebase I'd be at the mercy of the manual for quite a long time.

    This is not a representative sample of Rust. That's explicitly triggering edge cases which requires abuse of syntax you wouldn't normally see.

    Check out this for something more realistic that anyone should understand https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/blob/main/examples/ca...

  • Show HN: Muse, a CLI background music player
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024
    nice work!

    can I use "cargo install --git https://github.com/aabiji/muse"?

    I also recommend:

    https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui

    https://github.com/mikaelmello/inquire

    for your further development

    I also have a Rust CLI music project here if you want to have a look

    https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli

  • Ratatui: a Rust crate for cooking up Terminal User Interfaces
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2023
  • Ratatui
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 10 Dec 2023
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 10 Dec 2023
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 10 Dec 2023
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2023
    There are apps that are built on ratatui that support mouse already including an example in the repo[1], and crates (and some internal changes to the buffer) to support iterm/kitty/sixel based images.[2]

    [1]: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/tree/main/examples#cu...

    [2]: https://crates.io/crates/ratatui-image

    Compared to TurboVision, Ratatui has a lot of missing things:

    - Containers

    - Dialog types (I'm working on this in https://github.com/joshka/tui-prompts)

    - Higher order combinations of widgets (e.g. combine the scrollbar and paragraph)

    - Menus

    - Any event system (apps bring their own - we just handle display)

    - etc.

    - There's lots of things in TV that are provided as external crates (like editors, treeview, etc.)

    The main thing is that Ratatui is at least right now, just the display side of things. Things to do with events or application shell aren't built-in. This somewhat stems from the immediate vs retained mode approach to the library, but this may change in the future.

  • Trippy – A Network Diagnostic Tool
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2023
    The TUI is built with the awesome Ratatui [0] library (formerly tui-rs [1]). UX is certainly not my area of expertise and I would not have been able to create Trippy without this library.

    [0] https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui

    [1] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

  • ratatui 0.24.0 is released! (a Rust library that's all about cooking up terminal user interfaces)
    1 project | /r/u_Dazzling_Finger_8120 | 25 Oct 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing yazi and ratatui you can also consider the following projects:

lf - Terminal file manager

tui-rs - Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust

tokei - Count your code, quickly.

crossterm - Cross platform terminal library rust

joshuto - ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust

Cursive - A Text User Interface library for the Rust programming language

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. [Moved to: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty]

textual - The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.

textual-web - Run TUIs and terminals in your browser

react-blessed - A react renderer for blessed.

xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

trippy - A network diagnostic tool